Method: RbNaCl::Util.zeros

Defined in:
lib/rbnacl/util.rb

.zeros(n = 32) ⇒ String

Returns a string of n zeros

Lots of the functions require us to create strings to pass into functions of a specified size.

Parameters:

  • n (Integer) (defaults to: 32) —

    the size of the string to make

Returns:

  • (String) —

    A nice collection of zeros



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# File 'lib/rbnacl/util.rb', line 22

def zeros(n = 32)
  zeros = "\0" * n
  # make sure they're 8-bit zeros, not 7-bit zeros.  Otherwise we might get
  # encoding errors later
  zeros.respond_to?(:force_encoding) ? zeros.force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT") : zeros
end